The force has come to Orlando, where George Lucas and his creative collaborators are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their Star Wars franchise. What was your favourite role of Carries? As we remember Fisher now, we should all take comfort that we got to even experience her greatness in film. "Let me tell you, when I go to sleep at night, there's never a day so far where I don't think of her", Hamill said. "They may not be what you expect", said Ridley to knowing groans in the crowd.

"In our world, Star Wars became a religion and a way of life", she continued.

As they aged, they joked about their own mortality, with Hamill saying that Fisher promised to heckle his funeral if he died first. I'm not the only part in that equation, but I think the people deserve to have her. There's also the mandatory space-laser dogfights featuring TIE Fighters and X-Wings, as well as a cryptic reference to "The Balance" along with a shot of what looks like some sort of ancient, time-worn Jedi text. She loved these movies.

But the night belonged to Hamill as he worked through his grief, almost breaking down when he read a letter he wrote shortly after her death.

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